Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1887-02-12
EASTERN AND FOREIGN NEWS.

me oalvatiOn army mas invaded Otnana.
The people of Malta are demanding Home
Rule.
The natives of Madagascar are adopting
European dress.
Sponges have been discovered in the lake
at Chautauqua, N. Y.
An expedition to explore Brazil has left
Bremen for Rio Janeiro.
Forty-eight spinsters have land claims in
Bettineau county, D. T.
The Marquis of Butte has reduced his rents
by the amount of $500 annually.
People in Maine are pettioning the Legis.
lature to abolish capital punishment.
De Brazza, the French explorer, has
started for the French Congo country.
Ten millions of men are said to be prac-
tically under arms in Europe at this time.
A marsh near Cape May, N. J., is being
searched for Capt. Kidd's supposed buried
treasures.
About Loo coal miners in Pictou county,
Nova Scotia, have struck on account of a
reduction.
colored man has been sentenced in Mis-
souri, to ninety nine years. Imprisonment for
manslaughter.
The severe cold in Dakota has been very
fatal. The number of deaths from freezing
has been large.
India is going extensively into the cult
vation of mahogany, which tree thrives there
particularly we'll.
The Catholic temperance societies of Min
neapolis are combining to ask the Legislature
TO pass high-license law.
The German socialists of Chicago have
forwarded $4,000 to aid in re-electing social
Democrats to the Reichstag.
Under the workings Of the Arrears of PEN
sions law, the pension list is still growing at
the rate of 20 900 names year.
Near Toronto is being constructed the first
steel steamer ever built in Canada. The en-
gines are being made in Scotland.
Switzerland, though so small a country,
has thousand hotels, whose revenues con.
siderably exceed those of the Republic.
Reports from Montana say that the cattle
are dying by the thousands, the ground be-
ing covered by two or three feet of snow.
The woman who shot and killed a police
man in St. Louis in October 1883, has been
sentenced to ninety nine years in the peniten.
tiary.
"Dan" Rice, the circus clown, Snowman,
and temperance lecturer, was locked up in a
Cincinnati, Ohio, Jail Friday week for drunk
enness.
The tunnel recently completed at Schem-
ntz, Hungary, is 1927 miles long-the long.
est one in the world. 1t took 100 years to
build it
The arrival in Washington of Smith M
Weed, of New York, gives rise to the rumor
that he is to take Manning's place in the
Cabinet.
The Alabama house of Representatives
has passed bill to punish keepers of gam
bling houses by confinement in the Peniten-
tiary as felons.
German roe, deer, rabbits, pheasants,
English patridges and ssans have been re.
Gently imported into this country for the
Tuxedo Park, N. J.
The British warship Scout will sail seven.
teen knots an hour in smooth water, but in
making this speed vibrates SO much that
even old sailors are made sick.
Isaac Barnes, of Boston, agrees to give
$4,000 to establish new Baptist church,
but only on condition that all the baptisms
shall be performed in hot water.
1t is stated that the Abyssinians lost 5000
men in the battles in which the Italian
forces were defeated near Massowah, in the
Soudan, on January 26th and 27th.
AHS uSiaiSatioh VI JOhh S- hSi6htoHf iOt
nineteen years Clerk Of the Municipal Grim.
inal Court Of Boston, is announced. The
amount taken will exceed $500. 900.
Miss Estella Potter Ashley. familiar
hgurer on the American stage thirty years
ago, died in Cleveland, Ohio, recently. In
her later years she kept candy store.
Telephone communication has been estab,
lished between Brussels and Paris. 1t is the
longest line yet formed on the Continent,
and is said to work with great success.
The last colored man in the customs serv
ice in Georgia, John H. Davaux, Auditor in
the Savannah establishment, has just beer
removed to make room for white man.
The north branch Of the River Thames al
London, Ont, has again overfowed its banks
and nearly all the houses in the southern enc